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Citing Organizations

Organizations which are listed should be considered to be cited with references to their pages themselves. Several paragraphs have organizations listed and asserted in different categories without any citations. For example, some organization have generic names and are not linked to another wiki article. Internet searching for this organizations yield several results that may or may not be the one referenced. Additionally, claiming an organization is a commercial think tank vs a government think tank; stating it is in the defense sector, etc. is not common knowledge and should be referenced. This is being noted since updated citations efforts were removed. Jackashiya (talk) 16:47, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia doesn't add external links to organizations own websites simply because those organizations are mentioned. The citations added did not actually support anything in the article - they were just a means of adding links. Wikipedia isn't a web directory, we're not concerned with helping internet searchers find a particular group's website. MrOllie (talk) 16:51, 2 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]